The biggest IT outage of all time

I’m sure you would have all seen the IT outage that caused chaos throughout the UK and worldwide recently, Microsoft systems became useless as users were met with blue screens of death. Hundreds of people were left confused and frustrated, as the issues caused by the outage left airports having to cancel many of peoples flights. This kind of mayhem is often akin to malicious behaviour, with ransomware being the go-to as the culprit for such computer downtime. However, the outage was due to a glitch that came from security company, CrowdStrike. Due to a corrupted software update, users ended up with their systems being unable to be used, but with many of its users being in critical services, you can see how this outage was a little more than a minor hiccup.

Along with this, the opportunist hackers are wasting little time taking advantage of the affected users. The panic and desperation of wanting to get what’s important to you back up and running, leaves you scrambling to get it sorted fast. Hackers are preying on your desperation by setting up malicious sites, these fake pages promise the fix to get your device back up and running. These should be heavily ignored, as well as any phone calls you may receive, as these phishing attempts could see you suffering even more.

Microsoft have released a recovery tool for anyone affected which can be found here – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/new-recovery-tool-to-help-with-crowdstrike-issue-impacting/ba-p/4196959

With this being the biggest IT outage since 2017’s WannaCry, you should be asking yourself, do you have the measures in place to recover from such a disaster?

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